Chapter 629: A battleground for military strategists
Yang Xuanting was very satisfied with the harvest in Qilian City. He directly bought fifteen kilograms of cotton seeds, and the price was not that outrageous. You can buy one kilogram for three hundred gold.
However, he did not give money, but made an IOU. These Hu merchants were all going to the capital to do business. Yang Xuanting sent fifty people to accompany him personally, responsible for taking these caravans to the capital to ask for money from his father Yang Yue.
The caravans in the Western Regions all have backers. Without the protection of military forces, who would dare to risk traveling so far to do business?
Either he is from the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu, or he is a dignitary of the imperial court. Anyway, if you want to do business safely, you must have someone above you.
As we all know, businessmen cannot get away with things, only officials can.
This is why having power means having money, but having money does not necessarily mean having power.
The seeds were temporarily left in Qilian City. Yang Xuanting took the gold and the cavalry and continued to Qiuci. The prince had told him to buy as much as he could, and he would naturally take it seriously.
Kucha is rich in beautiful women. There are many Kucha people living in the capital, most of them are women, and men basically come to sell women.
It sounds ridiculous. Isn't this the buying and selling of people? As the saying goes, if there is a demand, there will be a sale. What's more, in the current world, women are men's property.
Qiuci belongs to the Indo-European race, with red hair, green eyes or blond hair and blue eyes, and a red and white face. The physical characteristics are very close to the Celts in Western Europe.
I am considering the whole country. Seven hundred thousand cavalry are fighting against each other. First of all, if the people have food, then the horses have food.
"Seven hundred thousand elites are enough to destroy them," Xuanting said.
Everything was abnormal. The other party did not do anything strange because of Li Jing's arrival. Yu Wenbao even brought back a Turk.
Xu Shiji took a deep breath and said: "At present, the Eastern and Western Turkic tribes have not scattered to all sides. The people surrounding Yang Yuanqing are all the main forces of both sides. Looking at the situation, a result must be achieved."
Yang Xuanting asked: "So the general manager thinks that you don't have enough cavalry to avoid this problem forever?"
The road is bad, but it is also more difficult to be attacked from both sides, so the Shanxi area is simply not a natural place for an ambush. That is not why in the previous life of the anti-Japanese war, the Taihang Mountains were one of the main battlefields of your army.
Dong Fei wants to go, a gentleman is standing on a dangerous wall, a place where barbarians conquer the country, but I dare to leave my army.
He is fierce, but he is also very cautious. After all, he is Yang Yue's son, so he can take risks as he pleases.
Yang Xuanting was stunned and said: "You guys don't have that strength at all."
Is there any main force like you, Xiao Sui, around? You only have two thousand people, so be honest.
Li Jing hurriedly sent his confidant Yu Wenbao to negotiate with the other party. Firstly, he wanted to find out the other party's details, and secondly, he said that you were here to buy something and there was no misunderstanding.
Xuanting shook his head and said: "The expedition to Goguryeo consumes too little. The national strength is enough to support an internal battle of 700,000 cavalry. Unless the whole country uses all its strength, but still, the cost of Goguryeo is too high. In the next ten years, everything will be
There will never be another expedition of that magnitude."
In the whole of Shanxi, there is actually only one road that is the worst to walk on. From Xiaotong to Yuncheng, it is also the only plain area in the whole of Shanxi. It is more like a canyon area sandwiched between mountains.
The Tiele man said: "You hope that Xiao Sui can send troops to help Shegui Khan. After the resistance has begun, please ask the general to bring your false intentions to your court."
Then, Shi Wansui asked the other party a few more questions before sending them off.
Horse food is less expensive than human food.
For frontline supplies, follow up, unless he puts the lives of the people at stake.
This is also the first time for me to observe such a small-scale battle at such a close distance. People can only see the smoke and dust, which seems to cover up the sunset on the horizon.
In the previous life, the most developed areas in Shanxi were basically under that line, Taiyuan, Xiaotong, Linfen, and Yuncheng.
"I heard that Shegui hasn't arrived yet, and now the two sides haven't had their first contact yet," Hou Junji sat on horseback and Xuanting looked down into the distance, looking at the vast smoke and dust below the distant plain.
Xuanting was also timid. He only took 800 people with him and headed towards Yang Yuanqing. I wanted to witness the Turkic civil war with my own eyes, because Dong Fei was very vague. The Turks were too weak. Sooner or later, there would be no fight between the Sui and the Turks.
Small battle.
In fact, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Qiuci Kingdom, and less than half of them are gone. Logically speaking, Li Jing should be so weak, but the day after tomorrow I just saw Tiele Qi’s small army roaring past, which made me feel uncomfortable.
The feeling of being in danger.
It is difficult for him to retreat, and it is even more difficult for him to leave.
Xu Shiji said: "My grandfather also said back then that we must use Shanxi as a chessboard to lure the main Turkic forces deep into the city. We cannot fight based on the city. Shanxi has many passes and mountains. It is difficult to gather the main Turkic forces. If you attack them with infantry, you can achieve full success."
, but the disadvantage is..."
At present, the Western Region is in chaos. Qiuci has also sent troops to join the war. Yang Yuanqing's side has become a mess. The world is in chaos. If there is chaos outside the city, Li Jing wants to make peace. He just sends his eldest son, Sun Jing, to retreat from the city to buy cotton.
Plant, and buy some Kucha beauties by the way.
The Turks were more martial than the Little Sui Dynasty, so they were very loyal to Yiliehe's hard-headedness and evaluated Yiliehe as the best warrior in the Little Sui Dynasty.
Xu Shiji shook his head: "The prince cherishes the people and will never refuse."
If Li Jing was still there, he would probably be in trouble.
When Li Jing arrived at the border, he happened to encounter a small Turkic army, tens of thousands of people, slowly marching toward the northeast.
Therefore, in the Turkic civil war, the winner can be determined very quickly depending on the situation.
Xiao Sui was very flexible in his fight against the Turks. He tried his best to avoid a decisive battle with his main force, but instead tried every means to pull from east to west, narrowing his defense line, and then gradually eroded it.
After all, Li Jing had seen a small scene. I didn't panic, but I dared to move.
Shi Wansui led his small army, and if he could withdraw from the city, before politely saying hello, King Bai Suni of Kucha sent his ministers to settle Li Jing and us in the city, and invited Dong Fei to withdraw from the city.
"The Duke of Chu has gone on several expeditions against the Turks. He once told you that if you want to permanently prevent this threat from entering the country, you can only use cavalry to fight cavalry. Otherwise, once the enemy invades the country, your city will be destroyed, your family will be destroyed, and refugees will be everywhere.
Xiang, in recent years, due to the trade in the Western Regions, the number of your war horses has increased year by year, but it is still far from enough. It will take at least seven years to have a small decisive battle with them on the grassland."
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Yang Xuanting said: "But Duke Chu's strategy is indeed shrewd. Shanxi has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. If we are well prepared, there will be fewer Turks coming and more deaths. It will not be a disaster for the people of Shanxi."
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Only a man who can bend and stretch can be a husband. No matter how arrogant Li Jing is, he still dares to sneer in front of tens of thousands of people. If I didn't have tens of thousands of people, I would just look like a cower in my eyes.
That eldest son was also short-lived. Not long before I left, a main force of the Eastern Turks started fighting in Qiuchi Kingdom with Qili Geling, the leader of Tiele who had arrived. The people of Yiluolu City fled one after another.
, those who have not fled to Gaochang, those who have not fled to Qilian City, and those who have not fled to the northwest border of Xiaosui.
When a hundred thousand people fight, no one cares whether they are the Sui army. As long as they are the same thing as you, you can fight him.
"The young governor is from Tiele, Du Bo, Pu Gu, uprooting the wild ancients, Gu Ligan, Shao Lan Ge Qi tribe's small army, we are rushing to Bami Mountain," Yu Wenbao rode over and said: "That person
I understand Chinese and am here to ask for your help."
"The disadvantage is that the people of Shanxi suffered a lot, with ten houses and four empty houses," Xuanting said with a smile: "Does he think the prince will reject that strategy?"
This was a foreign thing in the Sui Dynasty. It was exotic and naturally sold well.
There is no harm in being careless. Changsun Jing's purchase of cotton seeds went very smoothly. He bought a pound and spent the remaining money to buy seven beauties from Qiuci.
The reason why the Ile River is so fierce is not because I have been fighting Turks for half my life. It is powerful. If he is not timid, others will seize the opportunity to defeat him in one fell swoop. So once he encounters him, he must think of running away.
, because if he ran away, it would be over if he did it hard.
Qilian City is far away from Qiuci, and that country is to the southwest of Gaochang Kingdom. Its area is about half the size of Qinghai Province.
"Need your help?"
Tiele said: "It's far away, just in front."
Under the wilderness, thousands of cavalry galloping past was not a very spectacular scene. It must have been tens of thousands of people. It cannot be said that all the cavalry in sight were cavalry. The feeling of shock was unparalleled.
"Turkic civil war has always been like this," Xuanting nodded and said:
"After we leave, we will go to Yiluolu City in Qiuci. It seems that in a short time, Yang Yuanqing will not have a small battle here," Shi Wansui sat under the horse and watched tens of thousands of people.
Passed by one after another.
Huh? Asking for help, Shi Wansui coughed dryly, straightened his waist, and asked:
"You profiteer, Qilian City is so far away from Qiuci, how can the price difference be so small?" Shi Wansui muttered a few words before glancing at the seven beauties sitting on horseback.
When the Turks fight, they don't fight hard. They talk to them about tactics a lot, because they are all cavalry. He and Tao can withstand a few waves of my attacks, so I will retreat, and I will attack him before adjusting.
Finished.
"Yeah, yeah, you must bring him to Yudao," Yang Xuangan said casually, and then asked, "Has Khan Shekui come back yet?"
Since the founding of the country, many of the conflicts between the Little Sui Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Turks have occurred in the Little Sui Dynasty, and a small part of them have been fought on the opponent's territory, which requires the use of tactics to the extreme.
Yiluolu City is the main city of Qiuci Kingdom, and it is also one of the trade centers in the Western Region. It is very prosperous and quiet, and there are not many caravans from the Central Plains.
The cotton seeds out there are too expensive. They cost 700 gold instead of 800 gold.
"It's broken. This is not a place to stay for a long time. The men shouted," Shi Wansui said hello to King Qiuci before leading his army to leave.
You only have 2,000 people. Once the other party feels that you are not a threat, you can run away.
But Yang Guang is not that kind of person. What he thinks is possible, but nothing is possible outside of me.
The customs of Qiuci are basically the same as those of the Tiele Weihe tribe. Weihe was later called Uighur and was not the ancestor of our Uyghurs.